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DIPTERA. 
CoNOPIDiE. 
Conops. North American species discussed, tabulated, and described 
(several new) ; Williston, Tr. Conn. Ac. iv. pp. 325-342 : the descriptions 
of unrecognized species aro reproduced. C. vittata , Fabr., noticed ; Costa, 
Atti Acc. Nap., ix. 6, p. 44. 
Ptychoproctus, Bigot, = Stylomyia, Westw. ; Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
(6) ii. p. xviii. 
Conops obscuripennis , Virginia, California, Massachusetts, p. 328, syl- 
vosus , Massachusetts, Connecticut, p. 329, xantliopareus , Texas, Massa- 
chusetts, Connecticut, p. 332, furcillatus , White Mountains, p. 336, 
burgessi, Colorado, California, p. 337, texanus, Texas, p. 338, affinis , 
Kansas, California, Washington Territory, p. 339, Williston. Tr. Conn. 
Ac. iv., spp. nn. 
CtENOSTYLIDAS. 
Ctenostylidce, fam. n., Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. p. 22. Proposed 
for the anomalous genus Ctenostylum , Macq. ; the apparent atrophy of 
the mouth organs approaches it to the (Estriclce , and its pseudo-reticulated 
wings to the Nemestrinidce : but the preponderance of its characters ally 
it with the Conopidce and Myopidce. 
CESTRIDiE. 
On the nervous system of the CEstridce ; Brandt, Troudy Ent. Boss, 
xii. pp. lvii. & lviii., and Hor. Eut. Ross. xvi. pp. vi. & vii. 
Habits of (Estrulce ; Guillebean, MT. Ges. Bern, 1881 (2), pp. 7-11. 
Horse killed by larvae of CEstridce ; M6gnin, Mem. Soc. Biol. (7) ii. 
pp. 193-194. 
Undetermined botfly attacking the box-turtle ( Cistudo Carolina ) ; Pac- 
kard, Am. Nat. xvi. p. 598, fig. 
GEstrus elephantis , sp. n., Steel, Med. Exam. 1878, p. 886 ; GEstrus of 
the elephant, Cobbold, Cat. Entozoa Mus. Roy. Coll. Surg. 1866, p. 24 ; 
Gastrophilus elephantis, Cobb, Tr. L. Soc. (2) ii. pp. 246-248, 255 & 256, 
fig. 12, in stomach of Loxodonta a/ricana and Elephas indicus i quite 
distinct from Gastrophilus rhinocerotis, Owen, and Pharyngobolus afri- 
canus, Brauer. 
Muscime. 
Osten-Sacken & Bigot (Wien. ent. Z. i. pp. 20 & 21) make the following 
synonymic notes: — Pollenia stygia , Fabr. ( Calliphora villosa , Desv., 
Musca australis , Boisd., Icemica , White, indecora , Walk.) ; Calliphora 
quaclrimaculata, Swed. ( Musca violacea , Walk., Calliphora dasyophthalma, 
Macq.); Cephaloconus tenebrosus. Walk. ( Callistorrhina vittigera, Big.); 
Dryomyza formosa , Wied. ( gigas , Voll., maculipennis , Macq.) ; Bhachi- 
ptera limbata , Big. (p Percnoptcra angustipennis , Phil.) ; Pterocalla ulula , 
Loew [Elaphromyia melas, Big.) ; Ccelometopia trimaculata , Fabr., 
